You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

All thinking men are atheists.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. 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.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.