They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

A bottle of wine was good company.