Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.