1.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong
at the broken places.
2.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
3.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide,
than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
4.
Courage is grace under pressure.
5.
Never mistake motion for action.
6.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in
wealth.
7.
A man's
got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
8.
All
modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain
called Huckleberry Finn... American writing comes from that. There was
nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
9.
You know
that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing.
You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet
of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can
be true.
10.
We are
all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.