I am always in love.

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

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.