Wonder. Go on and wonder.

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.