The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

Ethics is everything, ... If you don't have a strong moral standing, if you don't have an ethical foundation, you just crumble.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.