“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”

“There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.”

“So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use.”

“There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.”

“If you can do it then why do it?”

“If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.”

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”