Never use slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time.

Never write about a place until you’re away from it, because it gives you perspective.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

No matter how a man alone ain’t got no bloody fucking chance.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

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.

Paris is a movable feast.

People who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature.