The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.