Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.

Read, read read. Read everything.

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.

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

That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.

You can't. You just have to.

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.