Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

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The past is never dead. It's not even past.

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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

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