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

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.