Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.