"Beat me, hate me, you can never break me."

"The world wants to be cheated. So cheat."

"When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there's a lawyer among the dogs."

"The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now."

"To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death."

"I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!"

"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."

"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."