Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.