Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year..

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone..

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more tha….

Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you..

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life..

The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced a….

I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five buck….

The streets were dark with something more then night..

It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should wr….

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins..

The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back..

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring..

She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house..

Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be..

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper..

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas..

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled..

I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long..

Could she *be* anymore out of my league?.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten..