I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .