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.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.