There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Never mistake motion for action.

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.