For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.