In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.