In every queen there's a touch of floozy.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.