The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

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

...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.