Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.