He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.