All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.