 The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. |
| Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. |
| To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. |
| If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. |
| For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. |
| Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. |
| All things truly wicked start from innocence. |
| A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. |
| Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. |
| When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. |
| Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? |
| There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. |
| I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. |
| You're beautiful, like a May fly. |
| His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. |
| All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. |
| Never mistake motion for action. |
| Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. |
| Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. |
| The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. |
