I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.