The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.