I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is