A bottle of wine was good company.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.