The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

1 might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardness in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

The first meal in Spain was always a shock with the hors d’oeuvres, an egg course, two meat courses, vegetables, salad, and dessert and fruit.

There was a certain inner comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was snooty toward him, although, being very shy and a throughly nice boy, he never fought except in the gym.

[Romance] was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it.

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.

So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.