I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.