The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as the other.

Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. S…

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.