Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?