Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

A novel is a mirror walking down a road

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.