Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
Never pursue literature as a trade.
Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.