This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?