If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

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

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.