You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.