Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.

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.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.