I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.