"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"
"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without"
"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"
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war"
"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one"
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime"
"Never mistake motion for action"
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen"
"I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me"
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them"
"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"
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy"
"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green"
"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"
"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward"
"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin"
"Courage is grace under pressure"
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated"
"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor"
"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary"
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools"
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut"
"All things truly wicked start from innocence"
"All our words from loose using have lost their edge"
"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time"
