"One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation."
"I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit."
"I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose."
"In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness."
"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."
"[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)"