In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.

It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

But she's a nut, and nuts win.