Everything in a story should be credible.

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.