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

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

...there is no old age of the soul.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.