Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

Write about what you're afraid of.

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.