But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.

The most terrifying part was that the evil dwelling in those eyes could've gone unnoticed by many.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.