It's much more important to write than to be written about.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.