I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.