Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.