I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

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.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey