Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.