Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

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