You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.

I was a terrible English student.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.