The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.