Who said “Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”?

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”

“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”

“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.”

“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”

“Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.”

“I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.”

“The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.”

“The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.”