Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

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

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.