Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.