Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.

The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.

I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks.

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.