There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.
Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.
Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.