You Have More People That Love You

Good Lord, I Don't Know What 'rights' A Man Has! And I Don't Know The Solution Of Boredom. If I Did, I'd Be The One Philosopher That Had The Cure For Living. But I Do Know That About Ten Times As Many People Find Their Lives Dull, And Unnecessarily Dull, As Ever Admit It; And I Do Believe That If We Busted Out And Admitted It Sometimes, Instead Of Being Nice And Patient And Loyal For Sixty Years, And Then Nice And Patient And Dead For The Rest Of Eternity, Why, Maybe, Possibly, We Might Make Life More Fun.

Writers Kid Themselves-about Themselves And Other People. Take The Talk About Writing Methods. Writing Is Just Work-there's No Secret. If You Dictate Or Use A Pen Or Type With Your Toes-it Is Just Work.

In Other Countries, Art And Literature Are Left To A Lot Of Shabby Bums Living In Attics And Feeding On Booze And Spaghetti, But In America The Successful Writer Or Picture-painter Is Indistinguishable From Any Other Decent Businessman.

A Sensational Event Was Changing From The Brown Suit To The Gray The Contents Of His Pockets. He Was Earnest About These Objects. They Were Of Eternal Importance, Like Baseball Or The Republican Party.

To A True-blue Professor Of Literature In An American University, Literature Is Not Something That A Plain Human Being, Living Today, Painfully Sits Down To Produce. No; It Is Something Dead.