It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

For life is holy and every moment is precious.