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

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.