“Attempts to connect men's circumstances too closely with their literary productions are usually, I believe, unsuccessful.”
“Women will buy products in an attempt to become the impossible goal. Men will buy products in an attempt to mate with the impossible goal.”
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“It didn’t take much to turn a man solitary-being the new guy too often, being controversial now and then, a couple of unsuccessful attempts at a lasting relationship with a woman…”
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
“I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”