The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.