I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!

When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling