How little we know of what there is to know.
I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn’t any woman and there isn’t any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
I’ve been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
The only decent bone in her body was mine.
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it’s not much use.
Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
Time is the least thing we have.
I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.
The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
It’s a town you come to for a short time.