My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

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

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.