People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.

Women alone always order sole. It means something.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Sex is a slotmachine.

This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.