So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
Dying is a very simple thing. I’ve looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
One cat just leads to another.
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
For what are we born if not to aid one another?
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I’ve lost 30 pounds.
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
No horse named Morbid ever won a race.
I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
My big fish must be somewhere.
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.