She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

It takes two to make an accident.

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.