We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.