The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.