What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

My plan was never to be an actor like my father...

Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.

I'm not trying to become popular.

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.