Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.