Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.