I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.