The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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?

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

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

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.