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

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.