Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.