I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

But in the Gulf you got time. And I'm figuring all the time. I've got to think right all the time. I can't make a mistake. Not a mistake. Not once. Well, I got something to think about now all right. Something to do and something to think about besides wondering what the hell's going to happen. Besides wondering what's going to happen to the whole damn thing.

Isn't it pretty to think so.

What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.