The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

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.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.