Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.