Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.
A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
For many things are not as they appear. Discipline must come from trust and confidence.
Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
A bottle of wine was good company.
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
Everything kills everything else in some way.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
Work could cure almost anything.
For all the poor in the world against all tyranny.
Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
You lose them the same way your lose a battalion; by errors of judgment, orders that are impossible to fulfill, and through impossible conditions.
All good books have one thing in common: they are truer than if they had really happened.
The ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose.
