Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.