Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.