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

I am like a blind pig when I work.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.