I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?