You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

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.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.