I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?