It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.