I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

Success is often harder to take than failure.