You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.