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.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The mountain violets break the rocks.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

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

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

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.