Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

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

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.