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

What is moral is what you feel good after.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.