"For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive." — Ernest Hemingway

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop 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.

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.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.