My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.