You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.

It is not possible to love and be wise.