China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.