Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

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

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man