No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
Man is not made for defeat.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.