All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.