Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't want to burn my insides out and live to tell the tale as well: idiots! It's simple, I'd drown myself... Why be in misery at the last?

It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?