Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.

Love is a fan club with only two fans.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Always a godfather, never a god.

There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.