"A bottle of wine was good company."

"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best — make it all up — but make it up so truly that later it w…"

"Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that w…"

"Every day above earth is a good day."

"And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to h…"

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown ho…"

"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a let…"

"Fuck literature."

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

"The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that…"