The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes.

We are all poets, really.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make

There is no one or group of people that would ever be free from bondage without making room for a change.

When two men live together they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other. Two men alone are constantly on the verge of fighting, and they know it.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.

When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a myth.