My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

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

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.