As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

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

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

[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)

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?