Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
Courage is grace under pressure.
The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.
The rifle and the pistol are still the equalizer when one man is more of a man than another, and if…he is really smart…he will get a permit to carry one and then drop around to Abercrombie and Fitch a...
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
Are you a communist?No I am an anti-fascistFor a long time?Since I have understood fascism.
As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.
Never confuse movement with action.
With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it...
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day ha...
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He was probably a coward,' she said. He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The...
Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy’s. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a raci...
Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then, one day, for no reason, he sees you as ugly as...
Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tri...
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.