"Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog."

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."

"I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in happy middles."

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."