It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.