You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

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.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.