That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.