People fall in love, but have to climb out.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

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.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.