The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

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.

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?

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

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

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.