It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.