(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.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

A bottle of wine was good company.

There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

Write drunk; edit sober.

All thinking men are atheists.

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