Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

Never mistake motive for action.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.