in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.