Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

A gentleman can live through anything.