Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

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

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.