We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!