Your blood coagulates beautifully.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.