If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.