I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it's always nice to know where you're going is my theory.

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.

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.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?