Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.