I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.

Never mistake movement for action

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

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.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.