A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

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

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.