You'll lose it, if you talk about it

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

Not the why but the what.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.