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.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

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.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.