We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.