[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

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

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.