Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?