It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

Scratch a king and find a fool!

For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.