I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.