I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.