Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.