To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.