If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.