Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

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

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.

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.