Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.