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.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be