Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.