Write what you like; there is no other rule.
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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.
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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.