The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

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.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.