You fail only if you stop writing.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again$$$ because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time$$$ wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats.

Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.

Nothing happened today. And if anything did$$$ I'd rather not talk about it$$$ because I didn't understand it.

So everything lets us down$$$ including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes$$$ said the voice$$$ but cheer up$$$ it's fun in the end.

I'm an educated man$$$ the prisons I know are subtle ones.