The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.

A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.