War is not won by victory.

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

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

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.