When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.