But if the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.

Everyone is born with a certain mission to accomplish. Everyone who walks on the earth, has his responsibilities in life.

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 stays with you, for Paris is moveable feast.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Everything you have is to give.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguishes one man from another.

The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.

The first panacea for a misguided 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.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.