The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.