There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.