Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.