Nothing in this book is true.

... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

In the water I am beautiful.

I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.