In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.