If you thought that science was certain - well$$$ that is just an error on your part.

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it$$$ but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write$$$ he don't know why$$$ he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers$$$ he will learn from writers$$$ but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away$$$ not knowing it couldn't even lie.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease$$$ within putrefaction$$$ into decay.

Everything goes by the board: honor$$$ pride$$$ decency . . . to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother$$$ he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

I am the chosen of the Lord$$$ for who He loveth$$$ so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it$$$ seems like.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.