If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.