Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?