He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.