It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.