He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.