Its not often a true friend comes around - E.B. White

I'm recovering from a nervous crack-up which visited me last summer and which has given me a merry chase. I never realized nerves were so odd, but they are. They are the oddest part of the body, no exception. Doctors weren't much help, but I found that old phonograph records are miraculous. If you ever bust up from nerves, take frequent shower baths, drink dry sherry in small amounts, spend most of your time with hand tools at a bench, and play old records till there is no wax left in the grooves.

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.