I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.