A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.