Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.