I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.