“Telling secrets to a writer is like embracing a pickpocket.”
“To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.”
“She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.”
“There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell.”
“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate.”
“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”