Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.

If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

Girls. You never know what they're going to think.

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.