The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

He talks at the drop of a pause.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win hold or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.