Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

I aspire to be an old man with an old wife laughing at old jokes from a wild youth.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.

The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.

You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.