When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.