I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.