Quotes by : James Salter

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life....

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything....

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable,....

You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that.""Further?""With your life. You must become....

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms,....

...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days.....

He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

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

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food,....