The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.

Life is serious but art is fun!