Sex is a discovery.

The maimed bodies aren’t the worst. That’s the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I – hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home...

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love – surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

Oh – oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public’s mind.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer’s concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

I’m not happy when I’m writing, but I’m more unhappy when I’m not.

I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.