In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

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.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico