Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.