 A man can be destroyed but not defeated. |
| The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. |
| 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. |
| I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. |
| Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. |
| 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. |
| Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. |
| I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true. |
| Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. |
| All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. |
| The shortest answer is doing the thing. |
| I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. |
| Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. |
| Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. |
| There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. |
| 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. |
| I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. |
| I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? |
| Wars are caused by undefended wealth. |
| What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. |
