I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

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

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.