I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.