Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?