There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.