The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.

You can't have everything, even in California

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

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

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.

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.