“A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person”

“There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.”

“We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”