Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

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.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.