The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

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

Worry destroys the ability to write.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.