You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

We wait always for something that does not come.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.