Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

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.