You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

You have to know what you want to get it.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.