"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

"All good books are alike in that if you have read one carefully you have to read it again."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"I learned a long time ago never to wrestle with a pig; you both get dirty, and the pig likes it."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."