If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

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

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Live it up so you can write it down.

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

There are worse places to be than on your own.