words to live by
“things fall down
people look up
and when it rains
it pours”
“Then I lost it. Kinda lost it all, you know. Faith, dignity, about fifteen pounds.”
“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”
“you have to have a habitual vision of greatness, you have to believe in fact that you will not settle for mediocrity “
“Everybody loved him… Everybody disappeared.”
“My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams I’m an idiot… who knows he’s about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can’t. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works…”
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
“Sometimes I guess there just aren’t enough rocks.”
“Find a place (inside) where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
