If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.