I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.