Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

Your blood coagulates beautifully.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.