Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.