I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.