You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

What is art but a way of seeing?

I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you."

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

Any artist should be grateful for a nanve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.