I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.
I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.
English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
People still look askance at a kid in the supermarket who's pitching a fit and think the parent is not sufficiently in control or not being sufficiently punitive. That's an issue for a lot of parents as well.