Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .