“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
War“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Funny“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
War“I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.”
Hope“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“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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Happiness“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“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
Age“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
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“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“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.”
Good“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“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Funny“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
Men“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
Business“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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
War“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“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