Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

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.

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

Culture is worth a little risk.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.