I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

Yes, they have more money.