A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a cliché, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head.