206 Quotes by James Salter

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

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

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

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.

But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.

You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true.

The normal economic system works itself.