Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.