I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

Everything hinges on how you look at things

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.