Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

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.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.