If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

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.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.