I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.

I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.

A gentleman can live through anything.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.