I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.

Trapped like a trap in a trap

Work is the province of cattle.

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

Writing well is the best revenge.