If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

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

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

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

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

A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.