He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.