You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

Men often marry their mothers.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

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

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.