Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.