It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.