Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.

No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.