The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
To be able to forget means sanity.
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye. ' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that. "
Sometimes it just doesn’t seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.