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.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.