If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.

In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present.