"I have a good life but I must write because if I do not write a certain amount I do not enjoy the rest of my life."

"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."