I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.