The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

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

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.