The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.