The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.