I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Your blood coagulates beautifully.