You see I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.
I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
Write drunk; edit sober.
Drinking is a way of ending the day.
Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it’s made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn’t writing, doesn’t.
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
The best writing is certainly when you are in love.
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.