We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man’s duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.
Yes, they have more money.
If you’re looking for messages, try Western Union.
Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day’s work.
It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you.
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn’t care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.
All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago.
Here is the piece. If you can’t say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
A cat has absolute honesty.
He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.