If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.