The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.