I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.