Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

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

She was the captain of her soul

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

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.