“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
Great“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.”
Good“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
Great“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Life“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”
Failure“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
Men“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
Good“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
Age“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Death“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
Life“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
Architecture“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”
Time“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
War“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Best“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.”
Good“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
Imagination“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Happiness“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Great“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.”
Time“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Strength“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
Travel