There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

A bottle of wine was good company.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.