You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.