I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.