It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.
In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the ultimate questioner' - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.
Men who only live to eat.
In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level.