The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

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

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

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

Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.