Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Everybody has something wrong with them.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.