He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.
Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.
most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people. . . until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.
That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.
In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.