Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.