Everything that begins, begins with blood.
There’s a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you’ve made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don’t suppose I can stop you, but I really don’t think it’s very considerate.
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.
Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.
The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.
Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.
An unread book is just a block of paper.
But I always felt that I’d rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you’re safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you’re safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
Her voice sounded like money.
I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.
I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!
When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.
One girl can be pretty – but a dozen are only a chorus.
Shakespeare – whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.