Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.

A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….