We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.
The best love affairs are those we never had.
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers. '
Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.
I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.
I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to. . . China!
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.