He studied cities as women study their reflections.
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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.
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.