All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

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.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.