I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.