Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.