We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

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

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

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.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.