All good novelists have bad memories.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I know what happened. I used my inTWINition

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Germany calling! Germany Calling!