This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.