You have to be lonely to be a writer

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.