Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.