For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

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

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

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.