What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.