I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

They arrested us after breakfast.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.