The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

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.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.