Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.