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

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.