When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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.