Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.