I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.