The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

All thinking men are atheists.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

There is no rule on how to write.