"Then we sat in silence, watching the scenery whirring past us in the improving light. I was lighting us both a cigare…"

"By the word existence I mean the one contract valid for mankind; I define it as the general contract. In it are the c…"

"Existence is sometimes what a forward artillery observer sees of enemy lines through field glasses. A distant and tro…"

"The black novel seeks to present as forcibly as it can the terminal psychic situation that occurs in people who have …"

"The bore is the human cuckoo. He will take over anything, usurp any nest. His one outstanding feature is that he has …"

"Nothing else much matters once you have achieved the hardest thing, which is to act out of conviction. Even if you ha…"

"'You're not very good at it, are you?' said Gust, 'they ought to have sent heavies in.' He thought the man very likel…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"