I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.
Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.
Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it.
He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.
I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one’s own body.
I had an inheritance from my father, it was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, the spending of it’s never done.
We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
Even if he was ever afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
You don’t have to destroy me. Do you? I’m only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I’ve been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn’t want to destroy me again, would you?
I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
They arrested us after breakfast.
No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.