Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

My father was in the First World War.

When there's a war, people get married.