It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

I am always in love.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

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 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.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.