I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.