I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.