That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)