The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

[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)

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.