Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.