You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.

The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.