He used the word gamut.
He looked at his face carefully in the glass, put a big dab of lather on each cheek-bone. It's an honest face. It's a face any woman would be safe with.She'd never seen it.She should have. All women s...
He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, b...
He felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance agains...
Fight them, he said. I’ll fight them until I die.
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary...
What happens to people that love each other?- I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever.
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention out of his experience should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a...
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
We are very serious so we can make very strong jokes.
War is not won by victory.
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.