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.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.