But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.