The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

A library is all the university you will ever need.

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.