Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

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

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

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

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.