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.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone