I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.