I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.