He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

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

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.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

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