I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.