I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

Always a godfather, never a god.

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.