My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

A book is a loaded gun.

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.