There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

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.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.