There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.