When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.