Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.