I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"