I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.
You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a littledarkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.
She had so many freckles that Erskine wondered if she might have stolen some from other children. 
Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox. 
Loeser found it hard to believe that God was forever slapping the face of the universe like a policeman trying to stop a drunk from falling asleep. 
Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder. 
accidents, like women, allude 