All good art is an indiscretion.

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.