A gentleman can live through anything.

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

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.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life