The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.