My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

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

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Most people never listen.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.