When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

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.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.