Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

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.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.