Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.