#novelist

"She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city"

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft."

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."

"When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life."