Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.