Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.