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Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Blood is our only permanent history, and blood history does not admit of revision

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

Survival is truimph enough.

survival is triumph enough.

Everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.

The writer's job is to get naked ...

Doubt makes a man decent.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.