In climbing, being first-rate is part of the whole enterprise. The important climbers want to be the first man up the mountain, the one who put up th….

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opp….

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything..

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish..

You write for glory. You play for glory. There's an ambition to excel, isn't there, to be a star? To score more, to do more, even when it's a team sp….

They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in Levis and su….

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed..

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your ow….

The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves..

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ….

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make..

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that..

You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollo….

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense..

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assembl….

When I'm filling notebooks I'm trying to pin down what I'm really interested in and to find those details that are so hard to come by, details that I….

God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help….

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change..

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real..

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality..

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows..