But did thee feel the earth move?
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
Hunger is good discipline.
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone.
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.