Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

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.

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

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.