"A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us."
"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy."
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
