"I wonder what you would have done, if you had not been a writer."

"I wish I could have found another way to live, but I couldn't. I had to write."

"The world was to be made over, and we were to begin by making it over in America."

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."

"A good writer is not, as it is sometimes thought, a man who has an idea, but one who is possessed by an idea."