No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?