Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.