When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

They love their jobs, and they love the creative excitement that comes from working there. But when you're sharing an apartment in Queens with four other people because you're getting 3 to 4 percent annual raises on a $25,000 salary, it's not a great thing.

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.