Hunger is good discipline.

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.