"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

"I’m not a great man but I’m a great writer."

"Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a god or a devil. Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a saint or a sinner."

"I left my heart in San Francisco. My father left his in a sanitarium. My mother left hers in a shoe box in the attic."

"A good writer is not, as it is sometimes thought, a man who has an idea, but one who is possessed by an idea."