It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. 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.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.