Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things