No decent career was ever founded on a public.

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.