I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

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.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.