Kennedy Was A Man Who Liked Writers

Horror Would Not Annoy A Soldier Any More Than The Sight Of A Hammer Annoys A Carpenter. It Is Sentimental To Pretend That Horror Is Not The Tool Of The Soldier, Just As The Hammer Is The Tool Of The Carpenter. We Live Off Death And The Threat Of Death And We Must Take It Calmly And Use It Well.... Eventually I Came To Enjoy Killing, As A Pianist Enjoys The Czerny Which Keeps His Fingers Limber For The Beethoven.

Critics In New York Are Made By Their Dislikes, Not By Their Enthusiasms.

I Never Drink While I'm Working, But After A Few Glasses I Get Ideas That Would Never Have Occurred To Me Dead Sober.

In America, We Have The Feeling Of The Doomed Young Artist. Fitzgerald Was The Great Example Of That.

The Writer Works In A Lonely Way.