Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.