I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.