The world is a fine place and worth fighting for

All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault

Drinking is a way of ending the day

A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it