The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.