Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.