The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.

But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.

Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.

The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking.

Talents too many, not enough of any.

I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.

No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.

Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.

Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. "Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood.

Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.

If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, 'Look, [Kanye West] called me and told me the line before it came out. Like, joke's on you guys, we're fine'.

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.