You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

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

When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.

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.

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.