I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.