(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought