The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago