It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.