He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

Your blood coagulates beautifully.

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.