where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.