All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.