When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn't belong there.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.