Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.