Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

I am always in love.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.