The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.