Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.