Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

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