Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
The most fundamental building blocks of the basic building blocks of the universe are infinitely divisible moments in time.
'Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays.
On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.