“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”

“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.”

“He had never quarreled much with this woman, while with the women that he loved he had quarreled so much they had finally, always, with the corrosion of the quarreling, killed what they had together. He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.”

“He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.”

“Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.”

“Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.”

“Intelligence is so damn 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.”