Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."