A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.