Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.