When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.