I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.