Everybody has something wrong with them.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.