Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.