There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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

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.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.