A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

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

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.