“He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”James Salter Source: All That Is
“As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.”James Salter book A Sport and a PastimeSource: A Sport and a Pastime
“The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.”James Salter book A Sport and a PastimeA Sport and a Pastime (1967)