I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.