Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.