That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.