People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.