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.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

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

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

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.