I wanted to try this new drink: That’s all we do, isn’t it – look at things and try new drinks?
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.
I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
Until you’re grown-up they send you to reform school. After you’re grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance.
Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well.
You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It’s been that way all this year. It’s been that way so many times. All of war is that way.
Strong in all the Broken Places.
There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
Everyone behaves badly – given the chance.
But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.
It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin, he thought.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen.
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.