The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.