For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.