Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.