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

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

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!

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.