“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”

“It is more sinful to conceal the power of the atom than it is to reveal it.”

“[A] child smacking an adult across the face is not funny. It is, in fact, one of the last things society should tolerate.”

“I waive the quantum o' the sin,
The hazard of concealing:
But, och! it hardens a' within,
And petrifies the feeling!”

“What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.”

“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?”

“Even if mankind had any desire to rid itself of the Seven Deadly Sins, Greed had been assured of a place in our hearts by virtue of time. By writing it down on a piece of paper and parading it as law and belief, Greed could be resurrected at a moment's notice.
That was the beauty of the written word. It was invariably taken at face value and granted permit to be spoken as the truth. It lived longer than the man.
And wreaked havoc in the process.”

“Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.”

“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”

“If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.”