The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

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.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

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.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.