How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

And now, at half-past ten o'clock, I hear the cockerels crow in Hubbard's barns, and morning is already anticipated. It is the feathered, wakeful thought in us…

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.

Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine a…

O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love le…

You advise me, too, not to stray far from the ground of experience, as I become weak when I enter the region of fiction; and you say, 'real experience is peren…

''Write what you know' is a tautology. You have no choice -- you have to write what you know, and in order to write something new, you have to learn something …