I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

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

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.