"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."

"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."

"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people."

"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain."

"Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press."

"Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away."

"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."