 Fields are won by those who believe in the winning. |
| A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing. |
| Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. |
| If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. |
| Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. |
| All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. |
| Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. |
| One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. |
| You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. |
| Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. |
