Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.