What is moral is what you feel good after.

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.