Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

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

He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.

They write them long because they can't write them short.

The streets were dark with something more then night.

Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.