A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.