A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.