Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.