Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.