I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.