Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

Never mistake motive for action.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

For what are we born if not to aid one another?

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.