Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

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

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

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.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

Easy writing makes hard reading.