The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

Murder your darlings.

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.