Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.