"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration."

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."