Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Boys are the cash of war.

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.