It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

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

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.