If you have to do it, you can do it.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Time is the only critic.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

Have you ever known anyone who was happy? And was still in his right mind, I mean.

I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.

If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try.

Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.

Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!