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

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

You must be prepared to work always without applause.