Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.
War is not won by victory.
The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel...
If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
No one you love is ever truly lost.
A bottle of wine was good company.
Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
There is no rule on how to write.