In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.