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?

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

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

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.