When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

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.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.