At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

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

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.

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

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

These are the days of bootleg love.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.