I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

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

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.