Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.