Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician..

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own..

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts..

We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in In….

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the mor….

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn'….

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies..

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things….

Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hur….

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears..

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity..

One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. N….

I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line ….

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts a….

Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactl….

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was….

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible..

...Skyscraper National Park.

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by.….

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to….

In this world, you get what you pay for..