Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too