Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.
When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'