Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

There is no rule on how to write.

Never mistake motion for action.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

In order to write about life first you must live it.