Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.
The first draft of anything is shit.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it us...
You bitch,' he said. 'You rich bitch. That's poetry. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.
What do you want? Everything. I want everything and I will take whatever I get.
Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.
Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do
Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.
It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it
It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
If people bring so much courage to the world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them
I thought you weren't going to ever talk about it.How can I help it?You'll lose it if you talk about it.I just talk around it. You know I feel rather damned good, Jake.You should.You know it makes one...
I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad.
Here's the beautiful lady with the beer.
He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can go around making themselves and everyone e...
Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to li...
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? Yes, every once in a wh...