there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.