You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

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.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.