There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well