A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.