“I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.”

“People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't." (145)”

“What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.”

“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day – for a bit, anyhow.”

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

“The real aret of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

“And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”