Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.