I don’t think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.
Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
Guessing isn’t knowing.
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It’s like nothing else. It’s like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn’t end in marriage. It’s all courtship.
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
I wrote because I had to. I couldn’t stop. There wasn’t anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I’d still be writing. It’s beyond a compulsion.
The helpless can’t help the helpless.
Mexico is the front door to South America – and the back door to the states...
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To board a train into his mind would give me a ride into dark adventure.