The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.

The unrecognized genius of our time.

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

The world is'nt such a bad place at all - as long as one did'nt read the daily newspaper

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't mean that your families are going to fall in love with each other.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.