“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
Age“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Good“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
Age“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
War“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Good“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
Life“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
Love“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Good“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
Business“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
Life“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.”
War“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
Communication“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”
God“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“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”
Best“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Funny“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Best“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“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
Life“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
Success