There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

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

Read, read read. Read everything.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.