The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

There's people in hell who want ice water.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.