Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.