

“Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.”
― Death in the Woods and Other Stories
― Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets?”
― Death in the Woods and Other Stories
― Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.”
― A Story Teller's Story
― A Story Teller's Story

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. The four twentieth-century writers whose work is most responsible for it are probably Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and the poet Dylan Thomas.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind, wanting to believe in the power of intellectual force, terribly afraid of sentimentality in myself and others.”
― A Story Teller's Story
― A Story Teller's Story
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