The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.