Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

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.

You can either buy clothes or buy pictures.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.