Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.