“Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.”

“Remember to get the weather in your [censored] book--weather is very important.”

“It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.”

“I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”

“Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her”

“When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.”

“it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.”

“My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”

“Intelligence is so [censored] rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.”

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”

“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”