“You've such a lovely temperature.”

“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”

“Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.”

“You know the only thing I've ever lost is curiosity," he said to her."You've never lost anything.You're the most complete man I've ever known”

“Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.”

“You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”

“All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.”