I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It’s hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
There’s no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
A woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion.
Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than – broken down.
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.
Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?