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

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

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