Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.