Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.