Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

A bottle of wine was good company.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.