But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.