A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

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

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.

...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?

But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was.

Each man has his own batch of poems.