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

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

Romance is everything.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

You attract what you need like a lover.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon

I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.

The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.

My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He’s [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he’ll live on.

The words of the world want to make sentences.