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

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.