"I had a lot of things to prove to myself. One was that I could live without a drink."

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

"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongl…"

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

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