Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed

I haven't changed, but I know I ain't the same.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

What can pay love but love?

If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

The time is now, the person is you.