No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

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

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.