Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.