In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.