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.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.