What A Man Does In His Own

When We Know What We Want To Prove, We Go Out And Find Our Facts. They Are Always There.

No Writer, I Believe, Should Attempt A Novel Before He Is Thirty, And Not Then Unless He Has Been Hopelessly And Helplessly Involved In Life. For The Writer Who Goes Out To Find Material For A Novel, As A Fishermen Goes Out To Sea To Fish, Will Certainly Not Write A Good Novel. Life Has To Be Lived Thoughtlessly, Unconsciously, At Full Tilt And For No Purpose Except Its Own Sake Before It Becomes, Eventually, Good Material For A Novel.

There Was An Old Abbot In One Temple And He Said Something Of Which I Think Often And It Was This, That When Men Destroy Their Old Gods They Will Find New Ones To Take Their Place.

There's Two Kinds Of Folk In The World, Just Like There's Two Kinds Of Life In A Seed. Something Sends One Kind Up To Hunt Its Food In The Light And Air, And Sends The Other Kind Down Into The Earth To Make The Roots.

Hunger Makes A Thief Of Any Man.