Hunger is good discipline.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.