Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.