Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

How strange women are.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.