“I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.”

“If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.”

“She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.”

“There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.”

“Indian summer is like a woman.”

“The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.”

“You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.”