The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would be just as good in somebody else's work too. You want to hold out for those things only you can say.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.