My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.