That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis' voice dying away

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.