Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

A cat has absolute honesty.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.