You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.