"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"I drink to make other people more interesting."
"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."
"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"