the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.