But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

Writing well is the best revenge.