I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.