You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.