The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.