It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its brid...
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
