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

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.