It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

Hunger is good discipline.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg