To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.