It all comes down to who does the dishes.

The way you write affects what you say.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.