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

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective