David Milch

I've never been on any road that I didn't find interesting.

Raymond Carver

I made a wasteland of everything I touched.

Peter Everwine

Love is the ground note; we cannot do
without it or the sorrow of its changes.

Albert Camus

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Stanley Kunitz

What other morality has the artist but to endure? The only ones who survive, I think, beyond the equally destructive temptations of self-praise and self-pity, are those whose discontent is with themselves. The fiercest hearts are in love with a wild perfection.

Cormac McCarthy

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain.

Graham Greene

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.