If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

Life has no beginning, middle or end.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.