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

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat