I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.

If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.