I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

Never mistake motion for action.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.