I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.