“Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.”

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”

“Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.”

“Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film. It is just one of the things that crazy people want to do, like starting a law suit or sending long, unsolicited letters to people in the public eye. A letter from a nutter has a recognisable format and orthography, as if all letter-writing nutters have to go through some kind of Top Gun nutter-letter-writing academy.”

“Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?”

“It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.”

“The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.”

“I am bewildered by the thousands of strange people who write me letters. They do not know me. Why do they do that?”

“Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.”