If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.