Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. - William Saroyan

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

What I intended to do was to burn a half dozen of my books and keep warm, so that I could write my story, but when I looked around for titles to burn, I couldn't find any.

In order to write all a man needs is paper and a pencil. Furthermore, when a thing has been written, it is written forever. When it is printed, nothing can stop it from being printed again and again if the thing wants to be printed again and again. I must therefore be a writer.