Novelist

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Affluence means influence.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.