If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.