Novelist

Jika anda melakukan sesuatu yang baik, setelah beberapa lama, tanpa anda pernah merasakannya, anda akan mulai untuk pamer. Setelah itu, anda tidak akan pernah dipandang baik lagi.

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

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