"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy."

"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is complete…"

"Fellini, je crois que, dans ma vie, j'ai été plus Casanova que vous! J'ai fait le calcul, il ya un an ou deux. J’ai e…"

"This was Fiesta. Overhead were strings of colored lights. In the center of the square was a small green park, trees a…"

"“We didn’t know it was only the first then. It was a girl down on . She was a nice enough kid for the life she lived,…"

"Reading Dorothy B. Hughes’s novel ' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous . Wit…"

"Tu es le pain et le couteau. Le cristal et le vin."

"We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual."

"They threw me off the hay truck about noon."

"I kissed her. Her eyes were shining up at me like two blue stars. It was like being in church."