My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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.

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

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