I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.