"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature"
"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"
"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"
"There is no friend as loyal as a book"
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention"
"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it"
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen"
"There's no one thing that is true. They're all true"
"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl"
"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"
"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"
