The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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 best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
There are people who can hear echo, so they think that they themselves produce an original sound.
There are people who talk, talk, and talk - until finally you manage to say something.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Never confuse movement with action.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Courage is grace under pressure.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
We have to get used to the crucial turning points do not always characters.