Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.
He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.