New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.

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 have to do it, you can do it.

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.

Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness".

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.

Man of simple life envies the man of complex life and man of complex life envies the man of simple life! The solution is simple: Let them taste the lives they envy. And thus the envy will disappear

cause down the shore everything's all right

We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

Biblically speaking, to hear and not to do is not to hear at all.

Others don't make us angry. There is no force involved. Becoming angry is a conscious choice, a decision, therefore, we can make the choice not to become angry. We choose!

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.