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

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

Let's take everything just as it is.

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.