All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.