I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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

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