(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.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.