My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.