'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

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

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought