Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

You will be successful only in the field of your gift

Go ahead. Enjoy the hills and valleys, days and nights, and all the beauty of life.

I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find

Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.

Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down there they'd head for the hills.

Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.