They arrested us after breakfast.

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

Man is not made for defeat.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.