Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

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

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.

We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.