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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.
There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so
Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.
I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.
We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.
I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.
I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.
It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.
I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race.
Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.
No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you.
It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.
I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.
I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.
Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.
I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black.
He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.
It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.