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

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.