Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.
The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.