He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

Most people never listen.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.