There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

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.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.