Courage is grace under pressure.
Never confuse movement with action.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer.
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Modern life is too often a mechanical oppression and liquor provides the only mechanical relief.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
