Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Always blame conditions, not men

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.

There are fascinating possibilities in this situation. I'd get it down on paper if I were you.

I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

There's just the unabashed and unprecedented and disgusting level of money in politics. I don't blame just the Republicans; the Democrats are just about as beholden to it, too.

Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.