You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

You love only those who deserve it.

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.

If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.