You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.