So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

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

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.