Murder your darlings.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.