All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Hunger is good discipline.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.