The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.