Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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.