"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."

"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different..."

"Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?"

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."

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

"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."

"The way to make people trustworthy is to trust them."

"If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows..."

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened."

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

"You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering."

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."