America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.