All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.