I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.