Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.