A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

Surviving a stupor of madness,drunk silence 'have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed ?

(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.