“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”

“Remember that every man is a variation of yourself”

“But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part o...”

“Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.”

“I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.”

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”