You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.