The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.