There are worse places to be than on your own.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.