I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.