Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.