She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.
Even a kick in the ass is good when you're facing the right direction.
It's not about the outside, it's the inside. But dressing on the outside can help the inside.
If you love what you do, it won't be work.
Love is a key ingredient for creativity.
You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside.
. . . books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone and in silence-you have to stand on the naked earth, naked yourself and with nothing around you, as if you were already dead. You don't hear anything at first; the only thing you feel is terror, but then you begin to hear a voice, away in the background, far off; it's a calm voice, and maybe its banality gets on your nerves to begin with.
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think of writing a novel if it didn't allude to the system into which these people are orchestrated - or an Eastern European writer, or a Russian writer, or a Chinese writer. Only American writers are able to imagine that the government and the corporations - all of it - seem to have no effect whatsoever.
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.