After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.