There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

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

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

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

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

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

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