To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.