I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.